Bad CSS in forums

PoDg · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: Bad CSS in forums

After hitting Ctrl-+ every time I visit the Gentoo forums, I decided to have a look at the css.
Shock, horror the font sizes are hard coded in pixels.
I know that the wiki code is not controlled by the website maintainers but could the css be fixed?

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It validates as valid css, with a few minor warnings.

/not a web guy, what is the issue with hard coding?

i92guboj · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:26 am Post subject: Re: Bad CSS in forums

PoDg · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:39 am Post subject:

Sorry I took so long to follow up my own post.
What I mean is it's bad practice, not invalid css. All the text in the forums is too small for me to read comfortably because it's set to a (small) fixed pixel size instead of being relative to my default fonts.

timeBandit · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:50 am Post subject:

Set the minimum font size in Firefox to the smallest (in pixels) you can comfortably read. This overrides all CSS scaling, even percentage-based.
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i92guboj · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject:

Yes, most browsers can set their own fonts, overriding css.

I usually set it that way, so I can get an adequate font size, regardless of the site I am visiting. In firefox, seamokey and probably most browsers around, control++ and control+- can be used to quickly change the font size as well.